"The 18th and 19th centuries witnessed the rise of positive(evo-commie/nazi) sciences, and with this an intensification in skepticism about God and the claims of traditional religion, especially among the educated classes. This inclination became most marked after the publication of The Origin of the Species and The Descent of Man by the naturalist Charles Darwin. Darwin ascribed man's immediate ancestry to the anthropoids, supposedly through a process of gradual evolution. Man was no longer a creature made in the image of God, but merely a natural extension of certain lower forms of life, a refined gorilla, as it were. It was these circumstances, and this intellectual milieu, that led philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to declare that "God is dead" and to predict the rise of new and terrible manisfestations of barbarism in the century that was to come. As he put it, "For ... we shall have upheavals, a convulsion of earthquakes, a moving of mountains and valleys, the like of which have never yet been dreamed of ... there will be wars the like of which have never yet been seen on earth." The non-believer Nietzsche would agree wholly with the Christian believer Dostoyevsky about one thing: Without faith in God, all horrors, all of man's worst nightmares, would become possible. And so they did. What men...
believe---really matters."
thanks. i think i am glad that i slept through science class.
during the 1800s period, too, the socialist movement in europe laid the foundation of antisemitism that ultimately led to the holocaust (i was awake for ww-II history). the socialists picked on the rothschilds, perhaps the richest family to walk the face of the earth, and tied anti-semitism with wealth hatred. while the socialists wealth hatred message never caught on with a majority, their anti-semitic remarks did. by 1870 most major newspapers were picking on the wealthy jews, and personified great wealth in the name of the rothschilds. ultimately, hitler used this message to the ultimate and a desensitized europe had a hard time initially believing that hitler was really doing something all that bad.
sounds like the 1800s in europe were not 'the good old days'